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Guest posts from operators, agencies, and thought leaders across B2B tech.
Ad Tech's Data-Sharing Chain Gets a New Legal Exposure Point
A federal court let a wiretap claim proceed against Index Exchange over cross-border ad data transfers, and a rewritten retail media measurement standard starts phasing in, both landing the same week and both reshaping what marketing teams need to check in their vendor contracts.
Bhavika J
CISA Adds Max-Severity Joomla Editor Flaw to KEV Catalog, Citing Active Exploitation
CISA added CVE-2026-48907, a maximum-severity access control flaw in the widely used JCE content editor for Joomla, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog on June 16 after confirming attacks in the wild.
Bhavika J
DeepSeek Takes Outside Money for the First Time as Snowflake Locks In Claude
DeepSeek moved to raise $7.4 billion in its first-ever external funding round the same week Snowflake reported thousands of enterprise customers now running production workloads on Claude.
Bhavika J
Vertice Buys Vendr: SaaS Buyers Lose an Independent Price Check
Procurement platform Vertice's acquisition of software-pricing benchmark firm Vendr merges two competing sources of SaaS pricing data into one company, and buyers who relied on that competition to keep each source honest should notice what just changed.
Bhavika J
Retail Tech's Real Story This Month Wasn't AI. It Was Consolidation.
In late May and early June, Walmart folded its supplier freight into a single national front door and Shopify merged its point-of-sale permissions into one admin panel, and both moves say more about where power in retail is settling than any AI headline this quarter.
Bhavika J
Dynamic Discounting: A Straightforward Cash Deal Wearing Procurement's Clothes
Dynamic discounting lets a buyer trade its own cash for a supplier's invoice discount, and it works differently from the third-party supply chain finance programs it's often confused with.
Bhavika J
01Health Raises $15M Series A to License Its Specialist-Care Platform
London-based 01Health raised a $15 million Series A to open up the software platform behind its dental businesses to independent clinics and practice groups, with trials of a US version already underway.
Bhavika J
India's Labour Code Rules Land Weeks Before a Separate Tax Deadline
India's payroll teams spent June 2026 running two unrelated compliance deadlines at once: the newly notified Labour Code rules reshaping how salaries must be structured, and the June 15 deadline to issue Form 16 under the outgoing income tax regime.
Bhavika J
Why Voice AI Latency Claims Rarely Survive a Real Phone Call
An explainer on what voice AI latency actually measures, why the industry treats 500 milliseconds as the bar, and what an independent test of five voice AI platforms found when it measured real recorded phone calls instead of vendor-reported numbers.
Bhavika J
RBI Moves to Ban Device Locking as a Fintech Sponsor Bank Is Fined in the US
The Reserve Bank of India has proposed hard limits on loan recovery tactics while, in the US, a small sponsor bank was fined for letting fintech partners outgrow its compliance controls.
Bhavika J
Zero-Copy Data Sharing, Explained: What It Removes and What It Doesn't
A look at how warehouses and lakehouses now share data without copying it, what that actually eliminates, and what still has to be negotiated the old way.
Bhavika J
Signal-to-Sequence Automation, Explained
A new layer of go-to-market tooling, led by platforms like Clay, connects buying signals directly to CRM records and sequencing tools, cutting out the manual research step between a trigger event and an outreach send.
Bhavika J